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[Xen-devel] [patch] unwanted sign extending

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [patch] unwanted sign extending
From: "Scott Parish" <srparish@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:10:30 +0000
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static int alloc_l3_table(struct pfn_info *page) 
{ 
  ...
    unsigned long  vaddr; 
    unsigned int   i; 
  ...
    for ( i = 0; i < L3_PAGETABLE_ENTRIES; i++ ) 
    { 
        vaddr = i << L3_PAGETABLE_SHIFT; 
  ...
    } 
...
}

"i" gets sign extended when its shifted, so vaddr has all its high
bits set. Because of that some l2 page_type's come out looking like
PGT_writable instead of PGT_l2. Eventually this leads to an attempt to
call put_page_type on the page twice, once when cleaning up recursively
from l4, and once from walking the raw frames list. The second
put_page_type hits the ASSERT that the type count isn't 0.

With the attached patch, i can completely run a simple "hello world"
domu, and its cleanup. Linux domu still probably doesn't work.

sRp

-- 
Scott Parish
Signed-off-by: srparish@xxxxxxxxxx

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